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Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ)

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Adult personality assessment questionnaire; Child personality assessment questionnaire

Definition

The Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ) is a self-report questionnaire designed to assess seven personality dispositions known to be associated worldwide with the experience of interpersonal acceptance and rejection. These dispositions include: (1) hostility and aggression, including physical aggression, verbal aggression, passive aggression, and problems with the management of hostility and aggression, (2) dependence, (3) self-esteem, (4) self-adequacy, (5) emotional responsiveness, (6) emotional stability, and (7) worldview. Collectively the seven PAQ scales constitute a composite measure of respondents’ overall psychological adjustment.

Introduction

Structure of the PAQ. Two versions of the PAQ are available: the Adult PAQ and the Child PAQ. Both are written in the present tenses and ask respondents to reflect on their true – not their ideal or wished-for – feelings...

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  1. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

    Ronald P. Rohner & Sumbleen Ali

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  1. Ronald P. Rohner
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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

    Brendan Clark

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Rohner, R.P., Ali, S. (2016). Personality Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_55-1

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